Dressing-chair.



No. 662,025. Patemd'nnv. 2o, moo. c. A. nuBER'rsoN.

DRESSING CHAIR.

(Application filed Dec. 30,1899.)

(No Model.)

E'ZEEr W/TNESSES UNirn rnfrns ATENT OFFICE.

OULLEN A. ROBERTSON, OF SPARTA, GEORGIA.

DRESSING-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,025, dated November 20, 1900.

Application led December 30, 1899. Serial No. 742,114. (No modem To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CULLEN A. ROBERTSON, of Sparta, in the county of Hancock and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Im provemeu t in Dressing-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in dressing or toilet chairs, and has for its object the construction of such an article of furniture which will provide a rest or support for various articles of clothing and which will ernbody in the one article a large number of useful features, thereby rendering the chair especially applicable for an apartment of small size.

The invention consists in certain details of construction and arrangement of the parts, which will be hereinafter specically described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved chair. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view of the trousers-press attachment. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the lower portion of the chair. Fig. 4 is a rear perspective view of the upper portion of the chair-back; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section of one lower side of the chair, illustrating the hinged parts of the trouserspress attachment.

My improved chair is provided with a preferably caned back A, in the center of which is suitably framed a mirror A', while from the upper end of the back projects a rod A2, which is adj ustably held by a set-screw A3 and has a reiiecting-mirror A4 at its front end adapted to be used by a person in connection with the mirror A' in viewing the back of the head or for some similar purpose. Just above the mirror A a clock B is secured in the same frame in which said mirror is held, the said clock being preferably of the alarm variety.

On the rear face of the back is secured a coat-hanger O, as shown in Fig. Lt, which may be used as such in the night-time and as a hanger for a night-robe during the day, and along the sides of the back are attached other hangers, usually in the form of pins, the pins C being adapted for the support of a shirt, while the pins O2 may be used for neckties,

scarfs, or the like. The knob O3 at the upper end of the back is adapted for the support of a hat.

Upon one arm of my improved chair is a shelf D, which constitutes at its rear end a holder or compartment D for a hair-brush and comb and at its front end has a socket D2 for a lamp, and the opposite arm supports a somewhat similar shelf E, which at its front end is formed with a slot E, in which stockings or the like may be hung, and has shoerests E2 intermediate of its ends and a comartment E3 at its rear on which shavinfr ar- D s ticles are intended to be placed.

The bottom F of my chair is preferably caned and forms the top of a compartment F', whose front side F2is hinged to be swung down and is spring-pressed into upper and closed position. The compartment F is adapted to be used as a receptacle for shoes and shoe-shining articles, and for the purpose of providing a stand to support a shoe when it is being shined I mount a leaf G on the under side of the frame for the cane bottom F, said leaf being swung out manually when the front side F2 is opened and being provided with toe and heel clamps G'. As shown in Fig. l, the front side F2 engages the leaf G when it isin an outer position, thereby acting frictionally against the leaf and tending to prevent it from wabbling.

I also provide my improved chair with a trousers-press, which consists of a [iat strip or section H,secured to the arm D and extending vertically therefrom, a similar strip H being hinged to the lower edge of the strip H and carrying a pivoted leg or strut H2, which is adapted to support the stripH in horizontal position. Normally the two strips are held together to press trousers by means of a clamp J in the form of a loop which slips over the free end of the strips and carries a bindingscrew J which binds the two strips tightly together.

It will be seen that I have incorporated a large number of useful features in one article of furniture which can be comparatively cheaply made.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,"and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described improved dressing- IOO chair, eomprisingaJ back provided on its rear the shoe-blaoking stand when the latter is Io face and on its sides with hangers forartcles swung into outer position, as set forth. of apparel, a. bottom underneath which is a In testimony whereof I have signed my receptacle for sundry articles, a shoe-blaokname to this specification in the presence of 5 ing stand pivoted to the lower face of said two subscribing,r witnesses.

bottom and mounted to swing in a horizontal CULLEN A. ROBERTSON. plane underneath and out from said bottom, Witnesses: mld a. front for said receptacle, said front be- TI-IOs. A. STEWART, ing spring-pressed upwardly and engaging B. W. BUTTS. 

